The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.